Synonyms for go west
| Grammar : Verb |
| Spell : west |
| Phonetic Transcription : wɛst |
Top 10 synonyms for go west Other synonyms for the word go west
- apostatize
- bail out
- beach
- bite the dust
- buy the farm
- cash in one's chips
- cease living
- check out
- chuck
- cop out
- crawl out
- croak
- decamp
- duck
- expire
- fly
- go
- go AWOL
- go back on
- go belly up
- go over the hill
- go to the wall
- go west
- jilt
- leave
- leave high and dry
- leave in the lurch
- leave stranded
- light
- maroon
- meet one's maker
- opt out
- pass away
- pass on
- play truant
- pull out
- relinquish
- renounce
- resign
- run out on
- shove off
- sneak off
- split
- strand
- succumb
- take a hike
- take off
- tergiversate
- throw over
- violate oath
- walk
Définition of go west
Origin :- 19c. British idiom for "die, be killed" (popularized during World War I), "probably from thieves' slang, wherein to go west meant to go to Tyburn, hence to be hanged, though the phrase has indubitably been influenced by the setting of the sun in the west." [Partridge]
- As in kick the bucket : verb die
- As in desert : verb abandon, defect
- If the worst came, he could go West with the family and learn how to do something.
- Extract from : « The Spenders » by Harry Leon Wilson
- Donald had made up his mind to go West In vain his parents dissuaded him.
- Extract from : « The Hunted Outlaw » by Anonymous
- "I cannot go West with you, Mrs. Lincoln," I said, when the idea was first advanced.
- Extract from : « Behind the Scenes » by Elizabeth Keckley
- But I think he will go west and though it is a big country, we might find him there.
- Extract from : « Far Past the Frontier » by James A. Braden
- Maybe what she said to Pa made him go west after peppering your burglar.
- Extract from : « The Grocery Man And Peck's Bad Boy » by George W. Peck
- A few, but only a few, go south; two or three go west, or to right of me.
- Extract from : « The Mason-bees » by J. Henri Fabre
- You mustn't go west, I tell you; it is destruction to go west.
- Extract from : « The Water-Babies » by Charles Kingsley
- Its fall, and if we go West it may be very cold, with lots of snow soon.
- Extract from : « The Motor Boys Overland » by Clarence Young
- We'll head in the last direction they'll expect us to go—west!'
- Extract from : « Beyond the Black River » by Robert E. Howard
- I quote this to show that it is not all foreigners that go west.
- Extract from : « To and Through Nebraska » by Frances I. Sims Fulton
Antonyms for go west
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